An official report on Europe’s largest detention facility Harmondsworth immigration removal centre (IRC) found “considerable failings”, including detention of victims of torture, lack of mental health provision and excessive periods of detention. The British...
The French Defender of Rights has condemned the recent rise in the number of children being placed in administrative detention under harsh conditions in a letter to the French Prime Minister last week. Since 1 January 2018, 40 children have been detained in France. In...
Revealing its first visions of the Up-coming Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz is announcing a focus on ‘securing external borders’ rather than ‘only dispute over redistribution.’ Euroactiv quotes Chancellor Sebastian...
An interview with Sophie Beau, vice-President of SOS MEDITERRANEE. Could you briefly explain your mission and operations? SOS MEDITERRANEE is a European civil society association, founded in 2015. It was founded at the end of operation Mare Nostrum in Italy when the...
Op-ed by Eda Seyhan, Amnesty International’s campaigner on counter-terrorism in Europe. Ahmed walked into court handcuffed, shackled around the feet and waist, attached by a leash to men in balaclavas, as in every previous appearance. Despite this degrading treatment,...
The updated AIDA Country Report on Austria provides detailed information and statistics on asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention and content of protection, covering recent legislative and policy restrictions on the rights of asylum seekers, as well as...
The new Country Report on Romania, the 22nd country covered by the Asylum Information Database, offers a thorough analysis of the country’s legal framework and practice relating to the asylum procedure, reception conditions, detention of asylum seekers and content of...
The updated Country Report on the United Kingdom tracks recent developments in practice and case law governing asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention of asylum seekers and content of international protection. Home Office guidance on age assessment was...
On Monday, the long awaited security update on Afghanistan was leaked to German news channel ARD. It sets out the deteriorating situation since the withdrawal of NATO forces in 2014. The report highlights refugees and deportation as key issues. Deutsche Welle notes...
According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM) 15.000 migrants have been returned from Libya to their country of origin and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has assisted in the evacuation of more than 1,300 refugees from Libya...
